A Unique Art Gallery Publication

A Unique Art Gallery Volume 1

The Artists Association of Jupiter Present

Profile of contemporary art and artists

A Unique Art Gallery Contents Editor and Publisher Brigitte Balbinot

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Note from the Editor

Gallery Director Denise LeClair-Robbins

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About the Gallery

Contributing Writers

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Featured Artist of the Month

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Letter from Our Director

Contributing Photographer

Coming Up Events GALLERY HOURS Tues - Fri 10am-5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm Closed on Sunday LOCATION 226 Center Street A-8 Jupiter, FL 33458 PHONE 561.529.2748

Artist Directory Call To Artists

A note from the editor A Unique Art Gallery is Jupiter’s best kept secret. Location of the Artists Association of Jupiter, this Co-op features talented Artists across various disciplines and media, including painting, photography, sculpting and mixed media.

This year, The Artists Association of Jupiter has seen some major changes and has welcomed a new Director in Denise LeClair-Robbins. We also had to tragically say good bye to one of our beloved members this past April and would like to dedicate this issue of our magazine to honor her memory.

Profile Directory If you would like to keep up with the art world and spot new emerging talents, then our profile directory is a great way to do it. These profiles show case each artist’s talent and work, motivations and inspirations. Ths is a great way to keep a pulse on your local art scene.

Margie Agoston Carolyn Austin Barbara Bailey Brigitte Balbinot Lynne Bernay-Roman Talia Cervetti Audrey Claire Correra Sharon Doyle Bill Hults Bill Jones Richard Kendall Lynzie Kronheim Dawn Langstroth Brigitte Balbinot Ruth Morley (Ann Frantic) Pam Panella Martin Schaus John Soderberg Raymonde Talleyrand

Contributors

Brigitte Balbinot is the editor and publisher of A Unique Art Gallery’s Semi-Annual Publication. She’s also an full time Artist and a member of the Artists Association of Jupiter.

Denise LeClair-Robbins is the Gallery Director at A Unique Art Gallery’s and The Artists Association of Jupiter. Denise has been part of the art scene for numerous years and is bringing us a fresh outlook and continuous ways to help us improve our gallery.

Sharon Doyle is also an artist at A Unique Art Gallery’s and has recently joined us. She’s also now volonteering her time at the gallery and is a member of the Artists Association of Jupiter.

Richard Kendall is a member of The Artists Association of Jupiter and photographer. He is a great contributor to all illustrations and photographs found in this publication and on our website.

About The Cover Ruth Morley, was a beloved member of our association. At age 56, she passed away on April 29, 2013. Born in Miami FL, on September 7, 1957 to Ann Francis Roberts Morley and (U.S Marine Corps. Colonel) Richard James Morley she graduated from Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL with a BS in Computer Science and spent her career as an IT Analyst. Most recently she established a giclee business to continue the artistic legacy of her much admired mother, the well known artist “Frantic Ann”. Her happiest times were spent on the water whether sailing competitively on Mobile Bay or cruising along with her beloved friends.

Her grace, talent and artistic flair were reflective in her home and garden where she had a gift for creating warm and beautiful spaces. She also had a passion for animals and over the years opened her heart and her home providing a loving refuge to many rescue dogs, including River, her most recent companion. Ruth was representing her mother’s artwork, known under the name of Ann Frantic. It is with great sadness that we say good bye to Ruth in this special edition of A Unique Art Gallery’s semi annual publication.

Our deepest condolences go to Ruth’s family. During her time at the gallery, Ruth had been a wonderful person to work with, an enthusiast and supportive friends to many of us at the gallery and a great advocate of helping promote the local art and emerging artists. She will be sadly missed...

Giclee, Ann Frantic ... by Ruth Morley

From Our Director Hello everyone!

The New Year has brought A UNIQUE ART GALLERY and the Artists Association of Jupiter many exciting changes. We have said goodbye to our former director Susan Lorenti, who is now at Original Elements in Tequesta, Florida. I am looking forward to a bright and productive future as your Director. We have already signed on two new artists, Bill Hults and Sharon Doyle, and are very happy to welcome back Talia Cervetti.

In celebration of the occasion, we are having an Artist’s Reception on Wednesday February 13, 2013 appropriately named, A TRILOGY OF ARTISTS from 5:30-7:30PM. January started off with a bang! Our “Arty Party”, hosted by Richard Kendall (Photographer), raised enough in non-perishable items and funds to feed forty needy Florida families for the Lutheran Charity Food Bank of Lake Worth, Florida.

We have many spectacular events planned for every month of 2013 and hope see you here, at A Unique Art Gallery!

I know that 2013 is going to be our best year ever!

Denise Le-Clair Robins

Margie Agoston

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argie was raised outside of New York City. I have lived in Boston and California., Jupiter, FL has been my home for the past 19 years. Margie received my B.S in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gemologist and Graduate Jeweler Manufacturing Arts from The Gemological Institute of America. During her career as an Artist, she has been greatly inspired by Dale Chihuly, Jackson Pollack, Alexander Calder and Frank Gerry as well as many other great artists.

Recently, Margie has exhibited her work at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, The Lighthouse Art Center Museum in Tequesta, FL, Art on Park Gallery, Lake Park, FL, February 22-April 26, 2013, and Art in Public Spaces, Palm Beach International Airport.

Red, 36 x36” acrylic on canvas

“Since I can remember, I have always loved creating whether it was painting, jewelry making or ceramics.

For the last few years, painting has given me the opportunity to freely express myself. Painting, allows me to delve into my inner soul producing work that validates my commitment to healing, growing and evolving. “

Carolyn Austin

Specializing in custom glass etching and carving for entryways shower enclosures tabletops arolyn Austin began designing and creat- and mirrors, Unique Glass Art’s work can be ing glass art within the family business in found in residential and commercial areas as 1986. She has built her reputation in the Palm well as hospitals, restaurants and on yachts.

Beach Community as one of the most unique We offer an onsite service which enables us glass etching artists in the area. Her show- to work on your existing glass while keeping room and studio are located in the Center a dust free environment. We use aluminum Park Plaza in Jupiter Florida. oxide in place of chemicals or sand. This is a much more user friendly media with a fine Carolyn has lived in the Jupiter/Teques- classy artistic finish. Yacht owners are big ta area since 1979 and has developed an fans of our mobile dust free etching equipeye for the tropical Florida scenes from long ment. We come to your dock as well as create legged birds to intensely detailed ocean life back lit carvings in our studio to be installed. which in turn creates one of kind glass art.

We invite you to take the opportunity to “I love working with people and using my spend some time with us to create a unique 2 years of experience to create a beautiful design in glass for your home, office or yacht. customized look in glass whether it be an en- Carolyn is available for consultations in your trance way or a free standing piece of glass home or her studio. art. All my designs are created by hand, an intricate detailed process to enhance each cli- Our Mission is to take the time and listen to ent’s home and personality. Making my glass our client’s needs and desires to create the art a personal favorite for each client is al- most exquisite design in glass to enhance ways satisfying I take pride in my work and your home and life style. Our greatest complithe exclusive following it has created.” ments are the referrals of our clients.

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Barbara Bailey

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fter graduating Cum Laude from Mount St. Mary’s College in New York, studied the medium of watercolor at the Jacaruso Studio in Rhinebeck, New York. After several years of operating a successful Bed and Breakfast business in the Hudson Valley she retired and moved to Lake Worth, Florida where she continued studying at the “Armory Art Center” in West Palm Beach. Using both Acrylics and mixed media; she is currently working in various procedures in abstract art and has won several awards including 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, prizes in various locations throughout Florida.

A Collection of Work by Photographer Richard Kendall will be featured on

The Artists Association of Jupiter & A Unique Art Gallery Present SOLO EXHIBIT A Collection of Works By Photographer Richard Kendall

WEDNESDAY July 10 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

July 10 - August 1, 2013 Reception July 10, 5:30-7:30 pm Center Street, Suite A Jupiter, FL www.artistsassociationofjupiter.com

Richard Kendall’s photography represents nature’s beauty, the uniqueness of architecture, and images that capture the essence of human behavior. Richard’s work elicits an emotional response within the viewer.

A memorial contribution in the memory of our beloved Ruth Mary Morley will go to Spring Hill College, Alabama.

WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION

226 Center Street, Jupiter, FL Wednesday July 10, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PLEASE RSVP to auniqueartgallery@comcast.net or call 561-529-2748

A Unique Art

Gallery

Brigitte Balbinot

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rigitte Balbinot, Artist, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. As a child, she has traveled extensively with her family to various places in Europe and Asia and even lived in Africa. These childhood experiences have contributed to define the work that you see today.

“When beginning a new painting, I try to let go of the intellectual side and the ego, the part of us that allows for judgment and egotistic behaviors, and channel the inspiration that may be brought by humanity in its organized as well as in its chaotic state.

Art to me is a link that connects each and every one of us.”

Balbinot’s paintings are large scale contemporary abstracts. It may take several weeks and sometimes months for a painting to be completed. She favors the use of oil paints, resins, waxes and alkyds as to speed up the long process of drying.

“I AM... therefore I PAINT! With an unquenched thirst for knowledge and understanding of the world around me, the canvas is my playground.”

“I know my work is done when after several passes I can look at it and feel that it needs nothing more from me to be alive.”

Lost at sea, oil on canvas 36 x 46”

The Lady Vanishes, oil on canvas 36 x 36”

Granite I, oil on canvas 24 x 24”

Sacred space, oil on canvas 30 x 40”

Cliff house, oil on canvas 24 x 24”

Lynne Bernay-Roman

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hile my roots are in oil painting, I’m a contemporary artist. Along the way I added photography, became a psychotherapist, evolved into a photo-therapist and now am deep into my recent discovery, digital painting; a discovery that has allowed me to combine many of the different mediums that I love.

I developed and implemented a phototherapy program in the school system working with at-risk kids and became passionate about getting their amazing work displayed. Much of the time when I begin a painting I don’t have a completed idea.

Color speaks the loudest for me and I let it take the lead until some sense of design emerges and then the relationship between the elements begins to form. It’s then that the story in me takes over. I’m an explorer and love to travel: in the world, in my inner scapes, and through my art.

As in my life, so in my art, things appear; a wee bit strange, vibrant, magical and definitely divine, with lots of rough prickly edges to add rich texture.

I have shown my work and been recognized by prominent jurors in many South Florida galleries.

Talia Cervetti

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alia Cervetti received her BFA from California College of the Arts with a focus on painting/drawing and textiles. She is a graduate from Dreyfoos High School of the Arts and currently resides in south Florida.

Exhibiting her work throughout the Bay Area and South Florida, she is also an instructor at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach.

Audrey Claire Correra

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udrey Claire Corerra, a native of New England, has traveled the world pursuing her interests in painting and photography.

She is self-taught, and one of her passions is painting animals. She enjoys the company of her son’s dog, Charlie (a Portuguese water dog that is afraid of water!) and has also recently been commissioned to do portraits of dogs for other pet lovers such as herself.

In 2009, she relocated to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and continues to paint in oils and pastels.

Sharon Doyle

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haron Doyle was born in Washington, DC in 1955. She has had a drawing pencil in her hand since a very young age and in 2009 turned her passion for painting into a profession.

Studying privately under Hugh O’Neill and Morgan Samuel Price, Sharon’s use of thick and thin paints to create texture & volume makes you want to just reach out and touch her trees, boats and flowers.

Emphasizing the play of light and shadow and placing one spot of color next to another turns her simple compositions into peaceful reflections.

Sharon is working on re-painting the Last Flowers of Manet, a series of 16 florals he painted during the last few months of his life.

She hopes to offer them in a one-person show in April of 2014. In the meantime, enjoy Sharon’s favorite subjects of sun & sand, boats in full sail, and tranquil landscapes.

Lynzie Kronheim

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ynzie Kronheim utilizes over 20 years as a Holistic Health Practitioner, Master Healer, Life & Grief Coach, and Art Teacher applying her skills as a Teacher and Painter. She has spent years teaching spiritual, creative classes to all walks of life, babies, teens, couples, elders including large groups. Self expression though painting nature plain-air inspires energy, light and color. Each painting presses me to see how I will interpret each moment of light.

Dawn Langstroth

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awn Langstroth has made a career as a creative artist writing songs, painting, and making drawings that are as much emerging portraits of a forthright and independent identity as they are lyrics and pictures.

As a painter, she takes the world she knows best – her friends, family, and the familiar landscapes of home – and interprets it in a direct manner letting line and colour convey her quizzical nature and probing sensibility.

An artist adept in several expressive modes, Dawn Langstroth tells us in words, songs and pictures what it means to embrace life fully and creatively, letting randomness and creative curiosity open doors and pathways on the wondrous journey of becoming ourselves.

“... unlike Colville and Pratt who have taken their paintings to the extremes of starkness and coldness, you fill yours with warmth and comfort. In your paintings, straight lines of buildings, doors have the waviness of a comfy duvet, old upholstered armchair, or an old rumpled wool sweater.”

Mary Mouzar, Hunts Point, Nova Scotia

During A solo exhibition in April at A Unique Art Gallery, Dawn introduced her work to our local community with great success.

The exhibition benefit went to Hannah’s Home of South Florida; a safe and loving environment for single pregnant young women.

Pam Panella “I choose to paint a variety of different subjects from places to which we have traveled or subjects close to home When I spot something that strikes my fancy, it will end up on paper. I use watercolors most of the time because they are spontaneous, transparent and can be used in many different techniques.�

Careful attention is given to the compositions and an intricate process of drawing precedes the use of colol. Most of my exhibits have been in various galleries, corporate offices and outdoor shows in the Northeast and Florida. Summers are spent in my North Eastham Studio and Winters are spent in Florida.

Raymonde Tolleyrand “I believe that I was born an artist, because of my interest in designs and color at an early age. My hope is to be a messenger of beauty to the viewer. This is my motivation. I value beauty in nature, photographs and people. I like interesting shades of light and shadows. Expressing them on my canvas gives me a lot of joy.

Richard Kendall

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ichard Kendall is a freelance digital photographer living in Jupiter, Florida. Richard grew up in Maine where he always had a great appreciation of nature and its unpredicatable beauty.

He now lives in Jupiter, Florida still enjoying nature’s palette.

Richard has always had a passion for photography and tries to capture a moment of nature’s beauty, the uniqueness of architecture, and images that capture the essence of human behavior. His work elicits and emotional response within the viewer.

Bill Hults

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was born in Philadelphia, grew up on Long Island and spent most of my adult life in Vermont before moving to Florida in 2003. I have been spending summers in the mountains of North Carolina since 2009 because of its pleasant weather and its fabulous photo opportunities.

“I have been taking pictures most of my life. I was mostly a casual photographer taking vacation photos and the like until my first trip to North Carolina. On that trip I discovered the hundreds of waterfalls around the western part of the state and the wonderful scenery of the Blue Ridge Parkway. These places inspired me to become more serious about taking photographs. Since that time I have taken thousands of pictures of anything that I think has something to give to the viewer.�

Bill Jones

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ill Jones is a local woodturner with a workshop in Jupiter. He is an active member of the Palm Beach County Woodturners, a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners.

He spends his time teaching at adult education classes, 4H youth classes, and creating a limited number of turnings to show at various exhibitions and galleries.

“Every piece he turns is made with not only a love of the wood, but also the delight in the craftsmanship of taking a log to a finished and unique artistic object.�

Summer Exhibitions 2013 A Collection of Works by Richard Kendall July 10 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

A Memorial contribution will be given to Spring Hill College of Alabama in honor of our beloved and dearly missed Ruth Morley.

Let’s Celebrate Our Jupiter August 14 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Open House

A special opportunity to meet and greet the people behind the plans for restoration of the Historic Pineapple House (1896)

Upcoming Art Shows July - December 2013 July 10

- A Solo Exhibit by Richard Kendall

Richard Kendall’s photography represents nature’s beauty, the uniqueness of architecture, and images that capture the essence of human behavior. Richard’s work elicits an emotional response within the viewer.

August 14 - Our Jupiter

A unique opportunity to discover preservation plans for the Historic Pineapple House (1896). This will be a chance to meet & greet Christian Davenport, PBC Archeologist, Jed Kindt (DuBois grandson), Kathy Kindt (Pineapple House artist)

September 11 - Our Jupiter

A Solo Exhibit of Artist Brigitte Balbinot’s work. Get acquainted with the Artist’s Vision and use of oil mediums and techniques.

October 9 - Our Jupiter

The last Flower of Manet by Artist Sharon Doyle.

November 13 - Solo Exhibit

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Dember 11

- Christmas on Center Street

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Call to Artists We would like to invite all local artists to submit their work to our coop of Artists.

The Artists Association of Jupiter welcomes artists to join our Association and Gallery.

The collection consists of a maximum of 30 artists who offer artwork in a variety of mediums.

As an alternative to temporary art shows, we are open five days per week, all year long and we have rotating artists in residence during those days. ​ Our artists are able to send clients to their gallery while they are out of town knowing their artwork is well presented. We do not charge sales commissions as all proceeds go directly to the artists.

The Gallery requires a yearly membership and a monthly rental fee. ​ You can start by downloading our membership brochure or contact us with further questions.

Workshops Our Association is proud to offer regular workshops given by several of our artists